Hawaiʻi has 18 plant species with only a single wild individual left. Dozens more around the world hang by the same thread.
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
These Hawaiʻi native plants are the last of their kind in the wild
Hawaiʻi has more endangered plants than all other U.S. states combined. Here's a look at some of the species that are so rare they only have a single wild plant left.
www.hawaiipublicradio.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Hawaiʻi has 18 plant species with only a single wild individual left. Dozens more around the world hang by the same thread.
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
We count what’s visible but most extinctions happen before we even know the species exist, plants especially.
#SixthMassExtinction
www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2...
Tipping Point
22 x 30"
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #ClimateChange #extinctions #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Tree
More Recent Paintings:
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
22 x 30"
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #ClimateChange #extinctions #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Tree
More Recent Paintings:
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Tipping Point
22 x 30"
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #ClimateChange #extinctions #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Tree
More Recent Paintings:
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
22 x 30"
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #ClimateChange #extinctions #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Tree
More Recent Paintings:
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
New Blog Day! 📣👻
Ghosts of the past come back to haunt the genetic record of island colonisation events, revealing silent extinctions! Written by guest blogger Adam Brachtl, this blog explores how molecular genetics can uncover these hidden stories...(1/6) 🌍🧪👇
www.linnean.org/news/2025/11...
Ghosts of the past come back to haunt the genetic record of island colonisation events, revealing silent extinctions! Written by guest blogger Adam Brachtl, this blog explores how molecular genetics can uncover these hidden stories...(1/6) 🌍🧪👇
www.linnean.org/news/2025/11...
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New Blog Day! 📣👻
Ghosts of the past come back to haunt the genetic record of island colonisation events, revealing silent extinctions! Written by guest blogger Adam Brachtl, this blog explores how molecular genetics can uncover these hidden stories...(1/6) 🌍🧪👇
www.linnean.org/news/2025/11...
Ghosts of the past come back to haunt the genetic record of island colonisation events, revealing silent extinctions! Written by guest blogger Adam Brachtl, this blog explores how molecular genetics can uncover these hidden stories...(1/6) 🌍🧪👇
www.linnean.org/news/2025/11...
It is false but we short lived species can't comprehend those time scales. We can't even comprehend how far back the pyramids are. Nor do we know how often deviations occur like extinctions and ice ages. Things do correct themselves after but the world is always vastly different.
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It is false but we short lived species can't comprehend those time scales. We can't even comprehend how far back the pyramids are. Nor do we know how often deviations occur like extinctions and ice ages. Things do correct themselves after but the world is always vastly different.
Plastic Planets
figure in a wasteland
of grey plastics
waste offloads
our world not satisfied
with war
or Nature's extinctions
but merely keeping
a last straw at bay
by searching other
empty worlds to populate
with ever larger
plastic priority
drop down sites
#poetry
figure in a wasteland
of grey plastics
waste offloads
our world not satisfied
with war
or Nature's extinctions
but merely keeping
a last straw at bay
by searching other
empty worlds to populate
with ever larger
plastic priority
drop down sites
#poetry
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Plastic Planets
figure in a wasteland
of grey plastics
waste offloads
our world not satisfied
with war
or Nature's extinctions
but merely keeping
a last straw at bay
by searching other
empty worlds to populate
with ever larger
plastic priority
drop down sites
#poetry
figure in a wasteland
of grey plastics
waste offloads
our world not satisfied
with war
or Nature's extinctions
but merely keeping
a last straw at bay
by searching other
empty worlds to populate
with ever larger
plastic priority
drop down sites
#poetry
From The Greens:
In a time when a football field of bushland is logged every 2 minutes, when Australia is leading the world in mammal extinctions, and our Labor government has approved 31 new coal and gas projects – we need so much better.
In a time when a football field of bushland is logged every 2 minutes, when Australia is leading the world in mammal extinctions, and our Labor government has approved 31 new coal and gas projects – we need so much better.
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
From The Greens:
In a time when a football field of bushland is logged every 2 minutes, when Australia is leading the world in mammal extinctions, and our Labor government has approved 31 new coal and gas projects – we need so much better.
In a time when a football field of bushland is logged every 2 minutes, when Australia is leading the world in mammal extinctions, and our Labor government has approved 31 new coal and gas projects – we need so much better.
It suggests the Tenerife weevils likely out-competed the newcomers, but more importantly revealed how genetic tools can uncover past extinctions otherwise lost to time, helping us to better understand island ecosystems! Read the full Special Issue paper below (6/6) 👇
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It suggests the Tenerife weevils likely out-competed the newcomers, but more importantly revealed how genetic tools can uncover past extinctions otherwise lost to time, helping us to better understand island ecosystems! Read the full Special Issue paper below (6/6) 👇
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
“Australia has one of the worst rates of deforestation in world & is number one in world for mammal extinctions. Every second a native animal is brutally killed by bulldozers.
www.greenpeace.org.au/act/forests-...
www.greenpeace.org.au/act/forests-...
Call on PM Albanese to introduce strong environmental protection laws
The government is overhauling our national environmental law. Together we can make sure they halt nature destruction and end the extinction crisis.
www.greenpeace.org.au
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
“Australia has one of the worst rates of deforestation in world & is number one in world for mammal extinctions. Every second a native animal is brutally killed by bulldozers.
www.greenpeace.org.au/act/forests-...
www.greenpeace.org.au/act/forests-...
$2million awarded to use AI to reduce methane emissions from cows = a waste of money 'cos that doesn't solve species extinctions caused by habitat loss due to livestock farming, or animal cruelty issues.
Human solution: solve all 3 issues by eating plant-based.
news.yale.edu/2025/10/23/p...
Human solution: solve all 3 issues by eating plant-based.
news.yale.edu/2025/10/23/p...
Pushing boundaries: Yale-affiliated projects are winners in climate solutions/AI challenge
A global competition to combine AI with climate solutions has named two Yale-related projects among its winning ideas.
news.yale.edu
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
$2million awarded to use AI to reduce methane emissions from cows = a waste of money 'cos that doesn't solve species extinctions caused by habitat loss due to livestock farming, or animal cruelty issues.
Human solution: solve all 3 issues by eating plant-based.
news.yale.edu/2025/10/23/p...
Human solution: solve all 3 issues by eating plant-based.
news.yale.edu/2025/10/23/p...
It's only an issue if it affects people's livelihoods it seems. Doesn't matter if we cause more extinctions of the wild animals and planets we share this ancient planet with as long as some people are making money through it.
And of course these are not statements I agree with at all.
And of course these are not statements I agree with at all.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It's only an issue if it affects people's livelihoods it seems. Doesn't matter if we cause more extinctions of the wild animals and planets we share this ancient planet with as long as some people are making money through it.
And of course these are not statements I agree with at all.
And of course these are not statements I agree with at all.
New Study Reveals Persistent Illegal Trade in Protected Sharks, Calls to Strengthen World’s Wildlife-Trade Treaty to Prevent Extinctions
www.newswise.com/articles/new...
#internationaltrade #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #extinction #sharks
www.newswise.com/articles/new...
#internationaltrade #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #extinction #sharks
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
New Study Reveals Persistent Illegal Trade in Protected Sharks, Calls to Strengthen World’s Wildlife-Trade Treaty to Prevent Extinctions
www.newswise.com/articles/new...
#internationaltrade #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #extinction #sharks
www.newswise.com/articles/new...
#internationaltrade #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #extinction #sharks
Not just nations, but the different groups of individuals who aren't effectively working together e.g. plant-based, flight-free, wildlife extinctions, clean water, plastic pollution etc.
All our voices together would shift the needle, but we're too insular & fragmented.
bsky.app/profile/cowb...
All our voices together would shift the needle, but we're too insular & fragmented.
bsky.app/profile/cowb...
The climate, environmental, & animal rights movements are too fragmented to effectively combat Big Animal Ag propaganda & misinformation like this. This article alone would take several days to unpick the moral issues & false logic, & to fact-check with references 🧵1/15
www.fwi.co.uk/business/13-...
www.fwi.co.uk/business/13-...
13 milk myths and misconceptions debunked - Farmers Weekly
An episode of Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast on Channel 4 a fortnight ago drew sharp criticism from farmers for turning consumers against housed
www.fwi.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Not just nations, but the different groups of individuals who aren't effectively working together e.g. plant-based, flight-free, wildlife extinctions, clean water, plastic pollution etc.
All our voices together would shift the needle, but we're too insular & fragmented.
bsky.app/profile/cowb...
All our voices together would shift the needle, but we're too insular & fragmented.
bsky.app/profile/cowb...
Fish Kill (revised - reds ascending)
18 x 24"
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Fish
Recent Paintings:
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
18 x 24"
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Fish
Recent Paintings:
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
November 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Fish Kill (revised - reds ascending)
18 x 24"
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Fish
Recent Paintings:
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
18 x 24"
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Fish
Recent Paintings:
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
Earth Angel
15 x 18" (revised)
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #MastoArt #Fediverse #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Insect
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
15 x 18" (revised)
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #MastoArt #Fediverse #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Insect
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
November 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Earth Angel
15 x 18" (revised)
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #MastoArt #Fediverse #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Insect
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
15 x 18" (revised)
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #MastoArt #Fediverse #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Insect
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
Why is more not said about CO2 causing the deoxygenation of water, disruptions to the biosphere and acidification of oceans and the major extinctions that followed these shown in the geological record. We are on the same path.
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Why is more not said about CO2 causing the deoxygenation of water, disruptions to the biosphere and acidification of oceans and the major extinctions that followed these shown in the geological record. We are on the same path.
Invasive species are driving more extinctions than climate change though the two are becoming harder to separate. A warming world often makes invaders stronger, natives weaker, and the lines blur.
(Not so) Happy Halloween! 🦇🐀🎃
Researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin documented brown rats catching #bats in mid-air at Segeberger Kalkberg, Northern Germany. A rare look at invasive species impacting urban wildlife. 🌍 @berlinbatlab.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin documented brown rats catching #bats in mid-air at Segeberger Kalkberg, Northern Germany. A rare look at invasive species impacting urban wildlife. 🌍 @berlinbatlab.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
October 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Invasive species are driving more extinctions than climate change though the two are becoming harder to separate. A warming world often makes invaders stronger, natives weaker, and the lines blur.
Nitrogen fixing is spreading throughout the oceans and or intensifying
The Arctic is now conquered by nitrogen fixing bacteria
The Arctic ocean will be the first basin turning into pea soup...
Question: on how far will open ocean CH4 emissions increase?
Algae CH4 feedback during mass extinctions
The Arctic is now conquered by nitrogen fixing bacteria
The Arctic ocean will be the first basin turning into pea soup...
Question: on how far will open ocean CH4 emissions increase?
Algae CH4 feedback during mass extinctions
'Impossible' Life Found Beneath Arctic Ice Could Alter Climate Models
Scientists have discovered special life forms thriving under Arctic sea ice.
www.sciencealert.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Nitrogen fixing is spreading throughout the oceans and or intensifying
The Arctic is now conquered by nitrogen fixing bacteria
The Arctic ocean will be the first basin turning into pea soup...
Question: on how far will open ocean CH4 emissions increase?
Algae CH4 feedback during mass extinctions
The Arctic is now conquered by nitrogen fixing bacteria
The Arctic ocean will be the first basin turning into pea soup...
Question: on how far will open ocean CH4 emissions increase?
Algae CH4 feedback during mass extinctions
In other words, we are heading toward a planetary climate event unlike anything humanity has ever witnessed. It will unleash mass extinctions across the globe, shatter ecosystems that sustain us, collapse the world economy, and severely endanger the lives of our children and grandchildren.
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In other words, we are heading toward a planetary climate event unlike anything humanity has ever witnessed. It will unleash mass extinctions across the globe, shatter ecosystems that sustain us, collapse the world economy, and severely endanger the lives of our children and grandchildren.
Eden
22 "x 32 revised
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #MastoArt #Fediverse #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Plant forms
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
22 "x 32 revised
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #MastoArt #Fediverse #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Plant forms
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
Paintings
BA Rochester Institute of Technology BFA Maryland Institute of Art MFA Brooklyn College Mentors: Philip Morsberger | Salvatore Scar...
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Eden
22 "x 32 revised
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #MastoArt #Fediverse #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Plant forms
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
22 "x 32 revised
#PAINTING #art #abstract #abstractart #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #ClimateChange #extinctions #MastoArt #Fediverse #SciArt
Alt text: forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
Motif: Plant forms
karlpabuckwampum-art.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog...
D13 H4C3 Hangry For Change. 3rd 30day #hungerstrike for stronger #environment #protection and #biodiversity #conservation laws, protection of all #threatenedspecies and #habitats and no more #extinctions
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
D13 H4C3 Hangry For Change. 3rd 30day #hungerstrike for stronger #environment #protection and #biodiversity #conservation laws, protection of all #threatenedspecies and #habitats and no more #extinctions
The story of extinctions and population depletions in the late Quaternary is a complex one. Climate and humans interference in shaping diversity is always convoluted. Here is the story from the Australian lizards' point of view 👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
October 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The story of extinctions and population depletions in the late Quaternary is a complex one. Climate and humans interference in shaping diversity is always convoluted. Here is the story from the Australian lizards' point of view 👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
Soften extinctions?
Soften climate exacerbated killer catastrophes: floods, landslides, heatwaves, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, wildfires, famines, sea level rise…?
Soften heat related deaths.
Heat: the BIGGEST killer.
Soften diseases like dengue, malaria, Zika as they spread to “safe” areas?
Soften climate exacerbated killer catastrophes: floods, landslides, heatwaves, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, wildfires, famines, sea level rise…?
Soften heat related deaths.
Heat: the BIGGEST killer.
Soften diseases like dengue, malaria, Zika as they spread to “safe” areas?
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Soften extinctions?
Soften climate exacerbated killer catastrophes: floods, landslides, heatwaves, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, wildfires, famines, sea level rise…?
Soften heat related deaths.
Heat: the BIGGEST killer.
Soften diseases like dengue, malaria, Zika as they spread to “safe” areas?
Soften climate exacerbated killer catastrophes: floods, landslides, heatwaves, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, wildfires, famines, sea level rise…?
Soften heat related deaths.
Heat: the BIGGEST killer.
Soften diseases like dengue, malaria, Zika as they spread to “safe” areas?
Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social and led by @tillramm.bsky.social! We integrated population genomics, fossils, SDMs, and micro-CT scanning to understand how climate change has influenced extinctions and extant genetic diversity in the threatened Australian mountain dragon #ozherps #genomics
Climate change predicts Quaternary extinctions and extant genetic diversity in a threatened Australian lizard
Ramm et al. show that Quaternary climate change predicts local extinctions and intraspecific
differences in genetic diversity of the threatened Mountain Dragon (Rankinia diemensis).
Their data suggest...
www.cell.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social and led by @tillramm.bsky.social! We integrated population genomics, fossils, SDMs, and micro-CT scanning to understand how climate change has influenced extinctions and extant genetic diversity in the threatened Australian mountain dragon #ozherps #genomics
Les Alamosaurus (découverts à Alamo, d'où le nom) ce sont les derniers sauropodes, des herbivores au long cou. Et c’est très intéressant, parce qu’on sait que les gros animaux sont plus sensibles que les plus petits aux extinctions.
October 30, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Les Alamosaurus (découverts à Alamo, d'où le nom) ce sont les derniers sauropodes, des herbivores au long cou. Et c’est très intéressant, parce qu’on sait que les gros animaux sont plus sensibles que les plus petits aux extinctions.
Unpacking the extinction crisis: rates, patterns and causes of recent extinctions in plants and animals royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧬🖥️🧪
Unpacking the extinction crisis: rates, patterns and causes of recent extinctions in plants and animals | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Biodiversity loss is one of the greatest challenges facing Earth today. The most direct information on species losses comes from recent extinctions. However, our understanding of these recent,…
royalsocietypublishing.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Unpacking the extinction crisis: rates, patterns and causes of recent extinctions in plants and animals royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🧬🖥️🧪